Audit: At least 23% of elonmusk's Twitter followers are probably fake - proving his point
“These accounts were randomly selected, by machine, from a set of 130+ million public, active profiles. Our analysis found that 19.42%, nearly four times Twitter’s Q4 2021 estimate, fit a conservative definition of fake or spam accounts .”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022, in New York City. Image source: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueThe audit goes on to add some important clarifications. Its definitions for what constitutes Twitter spam and/or inauthentic accounts, for example, might differ from Twitter’s.
Still, that’s well above the 5 percent estimate that Twitter has shared as a general marker for Twitter spam on the platform.What happens next, meanwhile, is anyone’s guess. The ensuing legal battle will almost certainly be expensive, protracted — and very strange. Twitter, which hadn’t put itself up for sale to begin with, is poised to file a lawsuit against a mercurial would-be owner who … doesn’t actually want to own the thing anymore.
The company has reportedly hired a powerhouse law firm to force Musk to buy this thing. To buy the company, that is, for the $54.20/share price he officially offered. The share price is down 11 percent today, to around $32.
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